FBI is continuing to focus on the most violent criminals in the region

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Apr 26, 2013 at 10:45 PMApr 26, 2013 at 10:54 PM

GOSHEN — The FBI's new leader of a Mid-Hudson gang task force says his team is as focused as ever on the region's most violent criminals.Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Felipe Orengo said the mission remains “absolutely the same” three years after more than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swarmed the City of Newburgh in surge-style gang takedown. Orengo, a Middletown High School graduate, took over the FBI's local operations after the old boss, James Gagliano, was appointed deputy legal attaché in Mexico City. The job includes oversight of the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force. The hybrid unit comprising 11 law enforcement agencies led investigations that yielded federal indictments of more than 300 defendants in Orange, Sullivan and Dutchess counties.

GOSHEN — The FBI's new leader of a Mid-Hudson gang task force says his team is as focused as ever on the region's most violent criminals.Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Felipe Orengo said the mission remains “absolutely the same” three years after more than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swarmed the City of Newburgh in surge-style gang takedown. Orengo, a Middletown High School graduate, took over the FBI's local operations after the old boss, James Gagliano, was appointed deputy legal attaché in Mexico City. The job includes oversight of the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force. The hybrid unit comprising 11 law enforcement agencies led investigations that yielded federal indictments of more than 300 defendants in Orange, Sullivan and Dutchess counties.